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Biography

Maria Chan is a scientist with the Center for Nanoscale Materials who studies nanomaterials and renewable energy materials, including solar cells and batteries and other energy storage, as well as photo- and electro-catalysts, thermal transport, and thermoelectrics. Particular focus is on using machine learning for efficient computational approaches and for interfacing computational models with materials characterization (x-ray, electron, and scanning probe).

Education

BSc, Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles

PhD, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research topics

first principles and atomistic modeling of nanomaterials and renewable energy materials, including photovoltaics, energy storage, photo- and electro-catalysts, thermal transport, and thermoelectrics

development of first principles and machine learning approaches for materials property prediction

methodology and software development for integrating atomistic modeling and experimental measurements